Hunt and Peck
Peck Pond Preserve & Community School Trails, Bethany
May 2024
Through this website, I provide a service. Is it a valuable service? No, not really. But it’s a service nonetheless.
Like when I put together certain lists, I oftentimes don’t know how viable some of those things on those lists are. Some are easy to verify; wineries or museums and things that have public facing business websites. Town trail listings from something I found published in 2011? No so much.
So I go to those trailheads and see what’s doing.
In the case of Bethany’s side by side Peck Pond and Community School Trails, I can tell you that in May of 2024, there ain’t nothin’ doing.
I had my first clue on a previous hike at the poetically named Edna L. Delano Nature Sanctuary & Rodell’s Roost. The trail description there promised a connecting trail to the trails at the Bethany Community School. No such trail existed. (And if you know me, you know I searched way longer than I should have.)
Fast-forward in time and I found myself in bustling downtown Bethany again and made my way over to the school. Which shares a driveway with Bethany’s town hall. I drove to the back of the property, walked to the back of the ball fields, and… nothin’. I could see faint traces of previous trail efforts, but certainly nothing worth exploring. Let’s head over to Peck Pond.
Wait! What’s this? A restored one-room schoolhouse plopped on a traffic island in front of the school? Sure is! It’s a surprise museum! The Bethany Center School!
Peck Pond is right next door to the school. It’s a pond.
I walked around the pond. It’s not a big pond. On the western side, there was little bridge and about four feet of “trail.” Then… nothin’.
Were there trails here 10, 15, 20 years ago? I’m sure. Are there in 2024? No. Might there be someday? Sure.
Now go read about actual trails in Bethany, because there are a lot of cool ones that you don’t have to hunt and Peck to find.
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